Who gives us the best chance of taking down Trump in 2020?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

56. I think that your last part is a good idea for the DNC to look at

I wonder if such a place exists and what that might be able to teach us. Part of the problem too is just that getting a Republican voter to vote Democratic usually takes a disastrous Republican Presidency and/or a seriously unqualified Republican candidacy (though that has somewhat been proven to not always be true this last election) to ignore to build an overwhelming wave against Republicans like 2006 and 2008. But even then, it doesn't seem to take much to turn such people back to voting Republican again if Republicans can gin up enough outrage against Democratic officeholders like with the Republican Tea Party in 2010 and 2014. In recent history, the trend has been for us to have a Democratic President and Democratic Congress for two years before Republicans win back one or both chambers of Congress built on a wave of intense opposition and outrage to Democratic policies (in 1994 it was burning hatred of the Clintons paired with attempted healthcare reform and in 2010 it was burning hatred of President Obama paired with the enacted "Obamacare", Stimulus, Wall-Street bailout- which technically started under Bush II).

What we really need to figure out is how to break this cycle and not only keep Republican converts but convincing regular Democratic voters to come out for midterms. It seems like many Democratic voters, particularly those on the left, also are somewhat fickle if they don't feel like what the Democrats do after being elected is "progressive enough" or if they don't feel like the Democrats have accomplished enough but instead of voting Republican, they simply throw up their hands and stay home, which, of course, ultimately helps the Republicans, whose voters show up election and election no matter how much the Republicans let them down. Republican voters- to our detriment- are clearly focused on "the long game" and protecting what they feel is their interests by voting to keep Republicans in office no matter how bad they seem to be for the state of our country (mostly because the Republicans are good at scapegoating Democrats and progressive policies for the ills of society). We need to figure out how to keep Democratic voters invested in the political process and focusing on "the long game". It's a tricky situation and I don't envy anybody at the DNC trying to figure it out but I hope that the next DNC Chair focuses a lot of time on this.